ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 08 Apr) – A government soldier ran amok and killed nine of his companions before himself being shot dead inside a Philippine Army base in the southern island of Jolo, officials said on Sunday.
The soldier, identified only as Pfc. Idai, went into a shooting rampage before dawn Saturday inside their base in Silangkan village in Parang town. One civilian was also wounded in the shooting, other military sources said.
“We are still investigating the incident. Right now, we cannot give anything yet. We still do not know what happened,” Maj. Gen. Nehemias Pajarito, commander of the Army’s First Infantry Division, told the Mindanao Examiner.
The military did not give details of the shooting, but the soldier, who was killed by sentinels, belonged to the 35th Infantry Battalion, sent to fight the Abu Sayyaf group tied to al-Qaeda terror network.
Thousands of soldiers are deployed in Jolo to battle the Abu Sayyaf which is said to be coddling Indonesian and Malaysian Jemaah Islamiya militants, among them Dulmatin and Umar Patek.
Both men have been implicated in the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia that killed 202 mostly tourists. (Mindanao Examiner)
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